Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Sid]

Music for Flute & Guitar
Virginia Taylor flute, Timothy Kain guitar
ABC Classics Discovery Label

PIAZZOLLA Histoire du Tango
BEASER Mountain Songs (excerpts)
LEISNER Dances in the Madhouse
MACHADO Musiques Populaires Brésiliennes
CORREA André de Sapato Novo



Bought this today for $10. I am particularly interested in the Piazzolla, a piece of his I haven't heard as well as two Brazilian composers, Machado & Correa. Apart from Piazzolla, I haven't heard the music of these composers...

[Scarpia]

Amazon was listing this 2cd set for $25 and I was staking it out for a better price.  Snagged one for $11.

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Ansermet was one of  Magnard's early advocates.  Here it is coupled with some orchestral music from Liszt, which will certainly sound French when Ansermet performs it.

[Sadko]

Arrived today, the Op 2 sonatas were just as good as I remembered them from the LP I owned and which prompted me to buy this set. There is something about his Beethoven playing that I can't describe that really appeals to me but I'm going to attempt to describe it anyway.

My recollection is of the feeling I had when I first heard Richter's LvB yet they are totally different players. My first listen to Richter and I went WOW - I want to hear more. I feel the same way about this. There is a joie de vivre in this first CD that makes me like it immediately. The playing is unfussy, very direct, with a hint of strong left hand but not dark in any way. I have a lot of LvB sonata recordings yet I can't make a direct comparison with any other pianist in stylistic or interpretative terms.

As I listen to more of this set I'll report back but based on one CD alone it's already a good investment.

On first hearing him (in this set), I also thaught: "This is one of the great ones". Later though I found his sober no-nonsense-way a bit too much, lacking something, which made me think: maybe that's why he didn't become so famous, but I do like his "pianist personality", so to say. (Only first impressions)

[PaulR]

Was in the city today to see Macbeth, so we wandered down to Academy Records.  Didn't have much time, but here's what I got:

[Coopmv]

Purchased this 16 disc set (15 CDs are Bach) from a local guy, and I get to pick it up on Thursday!   

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And Angela Hewitt happens to be a fellow Canadian ...   

[listener]

105 discs for about $65.
the 87-disc Beethoven edition and the Levine Ring, and splurged adding the Bela Fleck/Slatkin disc, all from amazon.ca, ..... if they fill the order.

[The new erato]

Cheap on prestoclassical.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

At a measly 3 euro's I will give this a try.

[The new erato]

[mc ukrneal]

At a measly 3 euro's I will give this a try.

I think this one is well worth it (especially at that price). I enjoy this one tremendously (and there are not so many choices of it). The symphony gives some good insight into Holst's beginnings.  Hope you like it!

[Sergeant Rock]

These books arrived this week: two volumes devoted to Brian's journalistic writings. I had to pay full price for volume 2 but found a like-new used copy of volume 1 for €4.50, making the average price for the two reasonable.




Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

These books arrived this week: two volumes devoted to Brian's journalistic writings. I had to pay full price for volume 2 but found a like-new used copy of volume 1 for €4.50, making the average price for the two reasonable.




Sarge

Indispensable books when you like Brian. I have volume 1, bought it when it came out a very long time ago. The second volume I ought to have, but - I pre-paid for it in 1987 (!), and it was only published last year... I should contact Martin Anderson of Toccata Press.

[Sergeant Rock]

Indispensable books when you like Brian. I have volume 1, bought it when it came out a very long time ago. The second volume I ought to have, but - I pre-paid for it in 1987 (!), and it was only published last year... I should contact Martin Anderson of Toccata Press.

1987! You have monumental patience 

The most striking thing about volume 2 is how much is devoted to Schoenberg. Brian was a great admirerer; felt a kinship even though their musical styles were so different.

Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

1987! You have monumental patience 

The most striking thing about volume 2 is how much is devoted to Schoenberg. Brian was a great admirerer; felt a kinship even though their musical styles were so different.

Sage

I have been writing a big novel for 15 years, of which Part 1 is now all but finished (around 400 pages). So, yes - patience is one of my traits! As for Brian - I love the way he is so sympathetic and objective about his fellow composers. There is no envy there. Exceptional, when you know something about artistic circles.

[Sergeant Rock]

I love the way he is so sympathetic and objective about his fellow composers. There is no envy there. Exceptional, when you know something about artistic circles.

Indeed. Volume 2 arrived a few days ago so I've had a chance to read a good bit. It is astonishing how little negative criticism there is. He seems genuinely interested in his contemporaries; genuinely enthused about their music. And his championship of older composers, specifically Bruckner and Mahler, was way ahead of his time. Brian's music has always impressed me. The man himself is now making the same good impression.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

The most striking thing about volume 2 is how much is devoted to Schoenberg. Brian was a great admirerer; felt a kinship even though their musical styles were so different.

This does not surprise me at all. Of course, Sarge, you said striking, not surprising . . . well noted.

[Gurn Blanston]

You know, I always wanted this 3 disk set;

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just picked it up on eBay for $4 + $3 s&h = $7. In "Like New" condition. I would have posted it in Super-Duper Cheap, but I would be surprised if someone else would get the same deal. OK, I'm just sort of crowing a little, since it really is a deal! 

[karlhenning]

Sweet, O Gurnatron!

[karlhenning]

Triggers pulled this week:

The Addams Family, vol. 1:


 

An Havergal Brian two-fer:

[karlhenning]

An Havergal Brian two-fer:

And illegible, I see . . . Symphonies Nos. 7 (in C), 8 (in b^b minor), 9 (in a minor) & 31 (no key designated, so maybe this is where some amazonians conjecture "atonality"), and The Tinker's Wedding comedy overture.  Liverpudlians with Sir Chas Mackerras (7/31/Tinker) & Sir Chas Groves (8/9).